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SCE boss Andrew House says it launched the system in Japan first due to the lack of a market leader

20 year old Japanese studio blames changing business environment for bankruptcy

It’s not often that a pair of games topping the charts brings bad news for their respective publishers. PS3 title Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Wii U platformer Super Mario 3D World entered the weekly Japanese charts in first and second spots today, but both point to serious declines …

Xbox One has signed on multiple Japanese development studios to make full retail releases for Xbox One. The firm’s corporate vice president Phil Spencer confirmed the new deals to Kotaku, stating that the unannounced titles will be revealed at some point in 2014. Spencer added that they will be full …

Company shoots down president Taizo Son's remarks to The Wall Street Journal

EA’s military shooter Battlefield 4 has become the surprise game to knock Nintendo’s Pokemon X & Y from the top of the Media Create charts. The 3DS RPG pair had been in the top spot for four weeks. However, 121,699 sales of the PS3 version of EA’s game was enough …

Square sees positive response after refreshing its stricken MMO, and announces beta for the PS4 version

Japanese mobile messaging firm gets over half its revenue from games

Nintendo has confirmed that American retail will continue to be supplied with Wii consoles. MCV reported earlier this week that a message on the Wii page of Nintendo’s Japanese site confirmed that production of the console had ceased in the region. However, that does not reflect its fate elsewhere. "The …

After starting a short-term revolution, the Japanese console maker has discontinued production of the original Wii